You often find yourself with multiple unused internet connections, be it a 3G/4G mobile subscription or a free wifi hotspot, that your system wont let you use together with your main one.
For example, my residence provides me with a cabled and wireless internet access. Both are capped at 1.200kB/s download/upload speed, but they can simultaneously run at full speed. My mobile internet access also provides me with 400kB/s download/upload speed. Combine all these with dispatch and a threaded download manager and you get a 2.800kB/s download and upload speed limit, which is considerably better :)
Installation
You'll need to have Node.JS installed on your system.
The module provides a simple command-line utility called dispatch.
$ dispatch start
Start a SOCKS proxy server on localhost:55667. Simply add this address as a SOCKS proxy in your system settings and your traffic will be automatically balanced between all available internet connections.
Usage
$ dispatch -h
Usage: dispatch [options] [command]
Commands:
list list all available network interfaces
start [options] start a proxy server
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
$ dispatch start -h
Usage: start [options] [addresses]
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-H, --host <h> which host to accept connections from (defaults to localhost)
-p, --port <p> which port to listen to for connections (defaults to 55667)
--http start an http proxy server
$ dispatch start --http
Start an HTTP proxy server listening on port 55667, dispatching connections to every non-internal IPv4 local addresses.
$ dispatch start 10.0.0.0 10.0.0.1
Dispatch connections only to local addresses 10.0.0.0 and 10.0.0.1.
$ dispatch start 10.0.0.0@7 10.0.0.1@3
Dispatch connections to 10.0.0.0 7 times out of 10 and to '10.0.0.1' 3 times out of 10.